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tonight, the world remembers. singing and dancing in the streets to celebrate the beloved leader they called madiba, nelson mandela, his life and legacy. >> mandela is peace. >> mandela is freedom. >> mandela is hope. >> the man who transformed a nation and inspired the world. david muir with the first lady on her cherished moment with mandela. >> what did you say to him? >> i just said thank you, thank you. thank you. >> robin roberts and the mandela family, the private man behind the legend. >> he likes to gossip. >> the story you haven't heard about his 27 years behind bars.

one on one with the white jailer, who became his most unlikely friend. and the inspiring story behind the hit movie, the gamble played out on a rugby field that would unite black and white. >> i don't think i've seen so many grown men on the rugby field crying. >> tonight the humility. >> he said what is the subject of today's show. >> the humor, and the young estrogeneration he inspired, to imagine. as we celebrate nelson mandela, a man who changed the world. here now david muir. and robin roberts. >> good evening, his long walk has come to an end. now his legacy lives on. tributes to nelson mandela pouring in from world leaders, flags at the white house, the un

and across south africa lowered to half staff. >> tonight we learn more about the funeral plans and a national week of mourning for the people of south africa even as new images come in from people all over the world. they are joining madiba's country men and women as they celebrate the peacemaker who rewrote the pages of history. >> reporter: a nation spent its first full day without its patriarch. but from johannesburg to soweto -- young, old, black and white also sang and danced in celebration of the life of the country's most revered figure. >> i think he would want us to celebrate his life. >> reporter: but the impact reverberate far beyond south africa, as world figures pay tribute to a man who stood head and shoulders above the rest. >> i am one of the countless millions who drew inspirations from his life.

>> reporter: it was a sad long goodbye for mandela, the frail reality of his health hit home in june when he was rushed to the hospital for a lung infection, mandela was eventually allowed to return home. the end seemed near. >> we will fight for freedom. >> reporter: during this period, his legacy burned as bright as ever. just last week saw the release of a new biograph cal feature film about mandela. in a sad irony the news of his death came during the london premiere attended by his daughters and the london couple. >> it is extremely sad and tragic news. we are reminded what an extraordinary and inspiring man he was. >> reporter: meanwhile, one last official journey for nelson mandela from johannesburg to pretoria, where his body will lay in state in the capital. then he will be buried at his ancestral village, a final rest

that he in his own words was fully at peace with. death is something inevitable he once wrote. when a man has done what he considers his duty to his people and his country. he can rest in peace. now it will be left to others to keep his words and deeds alive. nelson mandela met president obama only once, as seen in this photograph at the start of his career as a u.s. senator. he was forever inspired. >> we will not likely see the likes of nelson mandela again. for now, let us pause and give thanks for the fact that nelson mandela lived, a man who no longer belongs to us. he belongs to the ages. >> reporter: belongs to the ages indeed. mandela once said, it always seems impossible until it is done. and even though we long expected this, it's still so difficult for many to take in right now.

>> it is. we learned president obama and the first lady will travel to south africa in the coming weeks. abc's alex marquardt is on the ground in south africa for us tonight. alex, describe the scene there. >> reporter: good evening. when you look at the crowd of mourners, you understand why this country is called the rainbow nation. all across the board of south african society there is a profound loss. you can hear behind me, there is also celebration, a phenomenon that has broken out across the entire country. they say that they are embodying the spirit of mandela, who loved life. who was fun. who was funny. and they feel that by celebrating his life, they are embodying mandela's spirit. >> alex, thank you very much. now we look at the life of the man who transformed himself, while behind bars and you spoke to a young jailer that became mandela's trusted friend behind bars. >> this was an incredible tale, the jailer warned he would guard

south africa's most dangerous criminal but they would form a secret code. >> reporter: here in america, mount rushmore honors the fathers of our democracy. in south africa, there would be one face. nelson mandela, a hero to millions whose devotion to the cause of freedom transformed south africa. >> mandela was an immensely charismatic figure. tall, handsome, extroverted, had this fantastic smile, a smile that just lit up whatever room he went into. >> reporter: but for 27 years, he spent most of his days a prisoner in this room. and it was there he would meet a young country boy, who started out mandela's enemy, but forged the least likely friendship in history. a prison guard named christo brand, who remembers took us to a hill overlooking robben island remembering what

they warned him. that guard was just 18-year-old when he met his 60-year-old prisoner. when that jailer met mandela, he met an elder, who would treat the young white man with respect. and cristo would slowly offer the same in return. and that jailer told us of one of winnie mandela's visits, and her request she be allowed to show nelson mandela his brand new grand baby. >> she said can i please show nelson from a distance. >> reporter: the jailer telling winnie, no children allowed. what she didn't know was while she waited in a holding area the jailer brought the baby to mandela. >> tears were coming out of his eyes. >> reporter: nobody knew. >> nobody knew. >> reporter: there would be many secrets between the jailer and his friend and the secret code

>> i would show him this, and i would just start showing him this. mandela immediately know i'm bugged. i was bugged a lot of times. >> reporter: you lied to keep your job and to keep your friendship with mandela. >> that's correct. >> reporter: during all of those isolating years on robben island, the prison guard said there was one view from the prison courtyard of the country nelson mandela loved, and that was the very top of table mountain, here in cape town behind me. that mandela would look to this view, wondering if he'd ever be free. but for mandela, his own freedom was always less important than that of the people of south africa, even as a young man. for if life is a series of choices, nelson mandela never took the easy ones. he was born into african royalty -- the son of a chief, but chose to become a lawyer for the poor. >> i think not until he got to johannesburg where he felt the effects of prejudice for the first time, where -- where he felt, "my god, you're treating me like this." >> reporter: his practice, the first black-run law firm in south africa, was flourishing, but he could not stay neutral against apartheid. a system that made blacks second

class citizens, separate housing and schools. crushing poverty. >> for more than three centuries we have lived at the most brutal system of racial oppression. >> reporter: mandela found his calling in the fight against apartheid. a south africa, where the white minority ruled a population that was nearly 90% black. and created divisions, committed untold massacres of innocent people because they wanted to be treated with dignity. his party, the african national congress, was committed to non violent resistance. but many of his own supporters would often ask why so many of their own paying the price. >> there are many people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is only savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

>> reporter: peaceful resistance -- until the sharpeville massacre in 1960, when white police shot 69 unarmed protestors. the government branding the charismatic leader a terrorist. mandela went underground. >> we have made it very clear in our policy that south africa is a country of many races. there is room for all the various races in this country. >> reporter: by 1962 mandela's fight against apartheid landed him on trial for treason. he could have cooperated but instead, at trial, he gave a rallying speech heard around the world, captured by chance on a dictaphone. >> i have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society. it is an ideal for which i hope to live for and to see realized. but my lord, if it needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die.

>> reporter: the power and defiance and eloquence of that statement really electrified the nation, electrified black south africa, electrified the world. >> reporter: sentenced to life in prison, mandela spent most of his 27 years behind bars in that cell on robben island. assigned to work in the quarry, shoveling rocks, raking stones, work many believe led to those weakened lungs. and to that suffering even in the end. the conditions were brutal. >> people were assaulted regularly. people were -- deprived of meals for two or three times a day. >> prison was this great crucible that taught him self-control. because you had to have it. >> reporter: mandela would study for years in the tiny prison library -- quietly asking that most unlikely friend, the jailor, to help teach him the language of the whites in power --afrikaans. he would write essays and there was a reason for this -- mandela famously said, "if you talk to a man in a

language he understands that goes to his head. if you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." >> that's what he did. and that what he would strive for and that's what he was loved for and that's what he would fight for while he was in prison, to have people live in peace. >> to spend 27 years at the prime of your life is a tragedy. and i regret, you know, those years that i have wasted in prison. but, i also had the opportunity of reading very widely, and especially biographies, and i could see what men, sometimes from very humble beginnings, were able to lift themselves with their bootstrings. >> reporter: and there was something else he did while on robben island. we were given rare access to this tiny archive room in johannesburg where they have spent years pouring through the tender letters mandela wrote to

his family, to his children while in prison. >> he walked out with it when he left prison, so he took it with him. >> reporter: in that cell, lined with books, and the photograph of winnie -- the notebooks with first drafts of every letter. every word carefully chosen because in the beginning he was allowed just one letter every six months. >> so he needed to know exactly what he wrote, so he doesn't waste space. >> reporter: he wrote to his children about his dream of one day seeing them again. >> "i do not know, my darlings, when i will return. i told you that the white judge had said i should stay in jail for the rest of my life. it may be long before i come back. it may be soon. nobody knows it's his name, nelson mandela, and then his prison number, 466/64. >> reporter: when we come back, nelson mandela is freed after 27 years. the lines that led to history. and years later, michelle

obama's visit to south africa as first lady, in that room with mandela. >> reporter: nelson mandela. >> yes. >> reporter: what she told him -- when we return. and later in the program the private and surprisingly funny mandela. >> he likes to gossip. he would say, do you know that that one got in trouble for such and such. >> his love affair with the controversial winnie mandela. >> he often said to me that winnie had it much harder than he did. >> and his secret plan to use a rugby game to unite black and white. coming up on nelson mandela, a man who changed the world. insur? yeah. i heard about progressive's "name your price" tool? i guess you can tell them how much you want to pay and it gives you a range of options to choose from. huh? i'm looking at it right now. oh, yeah? yeah.

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we continue with nelson mandela, a man who changed the

world. once again, david muir. >> nelson mandela name had become a rallying cry echoing around the world eventually becoming loud enough to shake open those prison doors. >> mr. nelson mandela will be released at the victor-verster prison. >> february 11, 1990, and nelson mandela would walk to freedom. those precious moments captured by photographer david turnley. >> and here's this tall man in his suit, and he was so charming. he hugged everybody, seemed to know everyone by name. it was as if he'd never been in prison. and he walks to the window. and suddenly the sound from this crowd came rushing into this room and he stepped out of the window onto the balcony and addressed the world for the first time in 27 years. >> africa, africa. >> there's mr. mandela, mr.

nelson mandela. a free man taking his first steps into a new south africa. >> after all of those years in prison, mandela could have used his political power to fuel a wave of violence against white oppressors. instead he spoke of one country. >> i greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. >> mandela and south african president f.w. de klerk formed an unlikely alliance that in 1993 would win them both the nobel peace prize. a year later, mandela would run for president himself. the stunning aerial images in the towns surrounding johannesburg. the people of south africa lining up for miles allowed to vote for the first time. and nelson mandela, among them. it was a milestone filled with symbolism. a black man, former political prisoner, about to become

president. >> it was exciting to be able to exercise a right which in my 76 years was denied to me. i felt very excited, it was as i already said, the realization of a long cherished dream. >> south africa belongs to all its people, black and white. the time has come for us to forget the past. he would chip away at the past in ways large and small. on his first day as president, he met a young woman who worked in the president's office. >> you were a typist at the time? >> yes. >> she said she was so nervous in that hallway, he began speaking to her in her own language, afrikaans, in an effort to put her at ease. >> he saw that i was very emotional, and he said to me,

"no, no, no. calm down. the humility of a hero, later visiting with oprah, asking her a question first. >> when mr. mandela arrived today, he said to our producer, what is the subject of today's show? >> after he left office at the age of 81 nelson mandela would focus on new fronts, among them work to combat the spread of aids. >> i cannot rest until the global response is sufficient to turn the tide of the epidemic. >> reporter: even a super hero slows down in june of 2004 before his 86th birthday mandela announced he was bowing out of public life deploying his trademark humor. >> i want to be in the position of calling you, to ask whether i would be welcome.

the appeal therefore is, don't call me. i'll call you. >> one of those invitations to first lady michelle obama who visited mandela in south africa in 2011. we sat down with her right after. nelson mandela. >> yeah. >> what was it like in that room? >> surreal. something i never thought would happen in my lifetime, for me. >> what did you say to him? >> i told him, you cannot imagine how important your legacy is to who i am, to who my husband is and i just said thank you, thank you, thank you. mandela's legacy a lesson for her daughters, and children all over the world. this south african class we met born the year he became

president they know the future now rests in their hands. >> i don't think you would find many other people like him. >> i think the fact that he came back without any bitterness and without any anger is because he wasn't worried about himself, he was worrying about everyone else. >> and one more promise kept for his own children. we remember those letters he wrote from prison so many years ago. he wrote, "i am certain that one day i will look back. i will be back at home to live in happiness until the end of my days." which is precisely what nelson mandela did. >> announcer: next, just another rugby game? or a revolutionary idea of how to turn a divided country into one? >> i don't think i've ever seen 70 grown men on the rugby field crying. >> announcer: you saw it in the movies, but find out the real story from the people who lived it. mandela's victory, coming up. this holiday we're pulling up chairs

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it was the defining challenge of nelson mandela's political career to unite the

two warring factions of his country, a bold new solution was called for. and nothing was boulder than placing all bets on a game of rugby. for mandela, it wasn't just a game, but a perfectly chosen symbol of national pride, if they won, that is. the story was dramatized in the movies starring morgan freeman and matt damon, now debra roberts talks to the players who lived the real life story. >> reporter: may 1994, four years after his release from prison, nelson mandela stands before his nation as south africa's first democratically elected president. but beneath the hopes surrounding his rise, the remnants of violence and decades of apartheid are dangerously smoldering, his country still divided is on the brink of implosion. black versus white. >> 20 months of increased racial violence. more than 750 people have been killed.

>> it was the worst possible tension you can get between black and white people. >> no one will silence the white nation. >> reporter: as the violence intensifies, mandela has an unconventional idea: rally international support to bring the 1995 rugby world cup tournament to south africa, and use the world stage to unite his nation. but he is taking a risk because rugby and the south african national team, called the springboks have long been associated with the very worst of the country's history. >> in south africa rugby was the white man's game. >> i hated rugby. i hated those ones who were playing rugby, and i hated the springboks even more. >> rugby in many ways symbolized apartheid oppression with which black people were being kept out. >> reporter: but now the man called madiba, his tribe name, by his followers is set on making peace with his former oppressors. he would become a rugby fan but convincing black south africans

to stand behind the long hated springboks would not be easy. >> you see this cap that i am wearing? i ask you all to stand up behind them because they are our pride. >> here is a man wanting us to reconcile with this brutish people who have humiliated us for ages in our own country. i wasn't going to be persuaded even by the great madiba to support the springboks. >> who would have believed that south africa would beat australia world champions? >> reporter: as the tournament begins, the underdog springboks begin a magical run. >> south africa has beaten france. >> reporter: but as the team advances, something even more improbable happens. black south africans start to stand behind the national team. >> we started realizing, you know what, this is our country. this is our brother.

we all have to be behind them. >> reporter: one team, one country -- that was mandela's vision. and on the morning of the final game, blacks and whites alike were swept up into a shared frenzy of excitement. as mandela drove to ellis park stadium, he saw firsthand what just weeks ago had been unimaginable. >> flags everywhere, was just the world cup, the world cup. >> reporter: beneath the stadium, the springboks are preparing, knowing they would never play a more important game. moments before they take the field, the silent tension in the locker room is broken. >> the door opened and in walked nelson mandela. nobody knew that he was coming to visit us. >> here's the number one citizen of our country, a black man wearing a springbok jersey. >> never in our wildest dreams did we ever expect him to wear springbok on his heart.

>> reporter: the game was tied. the match remains one of the epic finals in rugby history. as play heads to overtime, mandela sits in the president's box, his great experiment hanging in the balance. >> i don't think i've ever seen so many grown men on the rugby field crying. >> reporter: after the win, nelson mandela wearing the symbol of his former enemies prepared to step onto the field. >> nelson! nelson! >> it was "nelson, nelson." >> "nelson, nelson." >> i never thought that would hear that at a rugby stadium. >> we didn't know what hit us. it was just the most phenomenal -- it was really quite a thing. >> reporter: the image of the joyous mandela celebrating with the national team is mirrored in every corner of the once broke country. it's a turning point. south africans at last are rejoicing as one.

>> it was freedom all over. the moment that the cup was handed over, to madiba, i told myself these are people that i have to build this country together. there's one south africa. all my hatred is going gain me absolutely nothing. >> madiba took my hand and he shook it and said "thank you very much, very much for what you've done for south africa." i said, "madiba, you got it wrong. thank you for what you have done for south africa." nouns when. >> announcer: when we come back the private and personal mandela, secrets his children and grandchildren tell us, and they are nothing you would ever expect. >> he likes to gossip. he'll say, do you know that that one got in trouble for such and such? >> announcer: next. five-star tr. i get times are tight. but it's hard to get any work done like this.

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behind a podium inspiring a crowd or marching and meeting world leaders. what was he like behind the closed doors of his home with his family? well, we spoke to many of them this past year. and came away with a portrait of a man very different than what you might imagine. >> reporter: a life destined for such spectacular greatness began humbly. a small village in the south african territory known as the transkei. >> it's hard to imagine nowadays what it was like to grow up the way he did that wasn't 1918 by western standards that was 1760 by western standards. there was no light. no electricity. no running water. >> reporter: he would attend boarding school and eventually college. but when his tribal father set up an arranged marriage, mandela fled to johannesburg and a very different life. mandela, in the 50's, when he was a young lawyer in johannesburg, he was really a man about town. he drove a fancy american car, he had a first marriage and three children.

>> i was -- when, uh, my mom, my mom has very fond memories of my father. uh, that my father was, uh, was a very hands-on husband. >> reporter: makaziwe mandela is nelson mandela's daughter from his first marriage. >> my father would come home from work and say to, to her, "to -- today, don't worry about cooking, washing dishes, or taking care of the children. tonight it's my turn." >> reporter: but as mandela morphed into a political leader, that family became the first casualty of the cause. >> all of us, uh, longed to have those moments, you know, where you can sit on a couch, maybe rest your head on your father. >> uh, we didn't have those moments. >> reporter: mandela's first marriage ended in divorce when makaziwe was just four years old, but soon after he would find a true soul mate. winnie. >> this was one of the great african love stories of all time from the moment he meets her, he just thinks she is the most

glorious girl. >> they fell unbelievably in love but almost from the get go he was having to go underground. they managed to make two beautiful daughters in two years before he was then arrested and put on trial and then sent to prison for life. >> at the wedding, he made a toast and said, my daughter, you're marrying a jailbird." and they all laughed about it, but of course he was in prison a couple of years later. >> reporter: they would not be allowed contact with him for 8 years. rarely visits after that. winnie becomes mandela's voice. the personification of him and his movement. and of course, becomes just as much a target of authorities. >> he often said to me that winnie had it tougher than he did. mandela, in all his 27 years in prison, spent one night in solitary confinement. winnie spent a year in solitary confinement. all of the time having to look after their two daughters.

>> reporter: those girls were named zenanie and zindzi. >> prisoners were not allowed to see children under 16, and given that winnie mandela's children were both very little girls when he went to jail, that meant he had no contact with them for a very long time. >> reporter: but his older daughter was able to visit her father in prison -- >> and uh, i expected to hug my dad and everything else. i couldn't. it was a glass window, we kissed on the glass on the window, we spoke through a telephone. >> i think one of his deepest regrets is his failure as a husband, as a father, as a family man because of all those years in prison. i mean, he's a very domestic fellow. he loves children. >> reporter: while in jail mandela would try to show that love the only way he could. >> and he made a tremendous effort to communicate with his children through the letters. every birthday you would get a

letter from dad, or you would get a card, a beautiful card. and every letter, every card would say, i love you. >> reporter: so many years pass, mandela is finally released, and once again faces a battle -- his role as a leader in the country and the world versus his private life. the marriage with winnie would not survive. >> the world naturally wanted these two bigger than life people to come together when he came out of prison, and to live happily ever after. i think it was probably in real terms, a very hard thing to ask. >> reporter: though winnie and nelson divorce, mandela is still able to forge a family life, but connecting with his three surviving children as well as his 18 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren remained a challenge. >> when he first came out of prison, we thought that we'd have a piece of our grandfather, but it didn't happen that way. tukwini mandela is one of those grandchildren. >> and i remember coming home once after my visit with my grandfather, and saying, "mom, you know, sometimes talking to granddaddy is really difficult." uh, and my mom said, "tukwini, you have to understand that your

grandfather has been in prison for 27 years, you know. he -- he's learning to, to reconnect." >> reporter: keweku mandela amuah met his grandfather for the first time when he was just 4 years old. >> as much as being a grandfather was foreign to him, being a nice person was not. and so that's all he really tried to do. meeting each one of his grandchildren was like building a new friendship with a stranger >> the secret to engaging with my grandfather was to get him to tell you stories about, you know, when he was younger, to get him to tell you stories about his father. because he's a very good mimicker. >> reporter: earlier this year when we spoke with tukwini and makaziwe, they told us several little known details about one of the worlds most famous men, an even more surprising trait they recalled at that time? >> he likes to gossip, my grandfather. >> you'll be sitting with him in the living room, and he'll say, "do you know that that one got in trouble for such and such, we were discussing it at the dinner table." it's like, "granddad, you can't keep secrets." >> reporter: his family says though mandela spent much of his life in the spotlight he often deflected attention to others. a simple pleasure mandela enjoyed during those precious

days at home, reading alone in peace. >> sometimes you go and see him in -- and he's reading his newspapers. he lets his newspapers down, "how are you, darling? how's school? how's work? how's everything?" "great, great." newspapers up. [ laughs ] you know you've been dismissed. >> those closest to mandela say he had a great sense of humor. and kweku mandela told us when we spoke last year, that's a big part of the life lesson he took from his grandpa. >> think you know, he's taught me that uh you have to be tolerant and i think the main thing is to smile you know? he's got a great smile, so i try to emulate that when i can! >> announcer: next, the great fight of mandela's public life. a personal tragedy, that inspired him to help a new generation of children. when we come back. wow...look at you. i've always tried to give it my best shot.

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nelson mandela once said there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children. when he moved into his final act, he turned his attention to them. especially the children and orphans with hiv. byron pitts tonight on mandela's final push to mobilize the next generation. >> reporter: january 2005 nelson mandela was 86. retired from public office for six years he called a news conference at his home in johannesburg to make a stunning announcement. >> my son has died of aids. >> reporter: makgatho mandela was 54. this public admission by this proud and now private man. is considered the pivotal moment in how the nation of south africa and much of the continent would view the aids epidemic moving forward. >> for him to stand up and admit that that was something within his family was very important.

it made other people feel that the norm liesed hiv. >> if it can happen to his family -- >> it can happen to anybody. >> reporter: an estimated 5 million were infected with hiv at the time and more than 2 million had died. aids was a shameful and taboo topic that prevented treating the disease. >> we must not hide the cause of death of our respected family because that is the only way in which we can make people understand that even hiv is an ordinary illness. >> reporter: the fight against aids was his last campaign. as president he remained mostly silent on the matter. but in the midst of his private loss he found his public voice. >> i cannot rest until the

global response is sufficient to turn the tide of the epidemic. >> reporter: and as usual for mandela, there were no halfway measures as he lent the power and prestige of his face and name to the cause appearing at huge international events, like this anti-aids concert. creating the "46664 fund," his old prison number, now used to raise awareness and money in the fight against aids. >> i would love to enjoy the peace and quiet of retirement but i know that, like many of you, i cannot rest easily while our beloved continent is ravaged by a deadly epidemic. >> his presence was absolutely incredible. when he spoke, the world listened. >> reporter: and nowhere was that impact greater than among the most vulnerable of south africa's population young children stigmatized by society.

children like 13-year old gugulethu ntombela one of the more than 300 hundred thousand south african kids living with the hiv virus. gugu, as she's called, has been living with hiv since birth, but but in her despair, a beacon of hope was nelson mandela's fight for the protection of kids and those living with hiv and aids. >> the fight against aids is one of the greatest challenges the world faces. >> reporter: inspired by mandela's example, this brave teenager picked up the pieces of her life and moved on at her johannesburg high school, she's a natural leader active in sports and a star student. always singing, she's also open about her hiv status despite the many people too scared or embarrassed to admit they have the virus. >> i'm okay. yeah, i'm okay. and i want to say that i'm strong, brave and intelligent.

>> reporter: it's a confidence born from the spirit of her country's patriarch, who himself endured so much. >> when the history of our time is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in the moment of a global crisis, or will it be recorded that we did the right thing? >> announcer: nelson mandela, a man who changed the world will return in just a moment.

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american, one south african to lift up their voices together in the classic john lennon song imagine, because that is what nelson mandela did. imagining a better world. i'm robin roberts. >> i'm david muir, great to be with you tonight and all of you at home and for all of us here, good night. >> mandela is peace. >> mandela is equality. >> mandela is freedom. >> mandela is inspiring. >> mandela is hope. ♪

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